LIST: Largest California Wildfires

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A firefighter uses a drip torch to light a back fire August 31, 2009 in La Crescenta, California.

The list below shows the locations of California's 10 largest wildfires.

Each fire includes the cause of the fire, date, location, acres burned, number of buildings damaged and fatalities. The data was compiled by Cal Fire and does not include fires before 1932, when less reliable records were available.

The list includes all fires in California, regardless of whether they were under local, state or federal agencies' responsibility.

Note: The complex of deadly wilfires burning in Northern California are not included in this list. Taken as a whole, the October Fire Siege burned at least 245,000 acres in several counties.